Leah says that for the project, titled Afro Bloomin', she chose to decorate the model's Afro with flowers because she believes the two complement each other. "I see beauty in natural hair and I see beauty in flowers—together I think they go hand in hand and I wanted to express my own passions and opinions as well as [the views of] others through my photos," Leah told Buzzfeed. In a tweet, Leah adds that she was inspired to work on this project after watching a video made by the Huffington Post about how Afros have become trendy but may have lost their radical roots: